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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...battle over genetically engineered "frankenfoods" that has taken Europe by storm in recent months appears to be headed across the Atlantic. After a Cornell researcher reported in May that genetically altered corn crops were killing off the monarch butterfly, now comes an article in a top British medical journal, The Lancet, that links modified potatoes to intestinal problems in lab rats. Although the article is accompanied by an editor's note describing the findings as "preliminary" and cautions that they should not be used to make generalizations about genetically modified (GM) crops, they are being seized upon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 'Frankenfood': Why Does Europe Find it Scarier? | 10/15/1999 | See Source »

...deteriorating. Since the mid-'80s, scientists have been aware of new brain cell growth after the formative years, but have debated whether or not the new growth affects advanced functions such as memory. Now researchers Elizabeth Gould and Charles Gross, in an article in Friday's edition of the journal Science, report that testing in monkeys shows the growth of new neurons that attached themselves to the cerebral cortex ? the epicenter of advanced brain activity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: You May Not Be Losing Your Mind, After All | 10/15/1999 | See Source »

...September became McKay professor of applied physics, reported with two other researchers in the science journal Nature that they had slowed light to 17 meters per second...

Author: By Graeme C. A. wood, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Hau Receives Tenure; Physics Professor Slowed Light | 10/13/1999 | See Source »

...scene. These drugs are considered adjuvant--that is, auxiliary--therapies because they're usually used in conjunction with conventional medications when the latter fail to provide relief. Occasionally they're prescribed alone. Among the more surprising new painkillers are antiseizure medications. A recent article in the Southern Medical Journal discusses anecdotal evidence that antiseizure drugs provide the best relief for neuropathic pain, associated with nerve problems. The newest and most successful has been gabapentin, which seems to relieve a wide range of nerve pain, including that often accompanying cancer and AIDS. Better yet, this class of drugs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pain Can Be Tamed | 10/11/1999 | See Source »

Sources--Good News: American Academy of Otolaryngology; American Society for Bone & Mineral Research. Bad News: American Academy of Otolaryngology; American Journal of Psychiatry (9/99...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Your Health: Oct. 11, 1999 | 10/11/1999 | See Source »

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